29 Facts About Springfield Massachusetts

Springfield Massachusetts sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River.

Springfield Massachusetts has several nicknames—"The City of Firsts", due to the many innovations developed there, such as the first American dictionary, the first American gas-powered automobile, and the first machining lathe for interchangeable parts; "The City of Homes", due to its Victorian residential architecture; and "Hoop City", as basketball was invented in Springfield Massachusetts in 1891 by Canadian James Naismith.

The Hartford–Springfield Massachusetts region is known as the Knowledge Corridor because it hosts over 160, 000 university students and over 32 universities and liberal arts colleges—the second-highest concentration of higher-learning institutions in the United States.

Springfield Massachusetts was founded in 1636 by English Puritan William Pynchon as "Agawam Plantation" under the administration of the Connecticut Colony.

Original settlement—today's downtown Springfield Massachusetts—was located atop bluffs at the confluence of four rivers, at the nexus of trade routes to Boston, Albany, New York City, and Montreal, and with some of the northeastern United States' most fertile soil.

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From 1777 until its closing during the Vietnam War, the Springfield Massachusetts Armory attracted skilled laborers to Springfield Massachusetts, making it the United States' longtime center for precision manufacturing.

Springfield Massachusetts underwent a protracted decline during the second half of the 20th century, due largely to the decommissioning of the Springfield Massachusetts Armory in 1969; poor city planning decisions, such as the location of the elevated I-91 along the city's Connecticut River front; and overall decline of industry throughout the northeastern United States.

On June 1, 2011, Springfield was directly struck by the second-largest tornado ever to hit Massachusetts.

The tornado caused hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage to Springfield and destroyed nearly everything in a 39-mile-long path from Westfield to Charlton, Massachusetts.

Springfield Massachusetts is divided into 17 distinct neighborhoods; in alphabetical order, they are:.

In 2010, Springfield Massachusetts ranked 35th in the United States' City Crime Rankings—its second-lowest ranking in recent years,.

Springfield Massachusetts is considered to have a "mature economy", which protects the city to a degree during recessions and inhibits it somewhat during bubbles.

Hartford–Springfield Massachusetts has become home to a number of biotech firms and high-speed computing centers.

Springfield Massachusetts is home to five distinct museums at the Quadrangle, along with the ornate Springfield Massachusetts City Library—an architecturally significant example of the City Beautiful movement.

For example, Springfield Massachusetts's ornate Classical High School, with its immense Victorian atrium—where Dr Seuss, Timothy Leary, and Taj Mahal all went to high school—is a luxury condominium building.

Springfield Massachusetts is currently home to the Western Mass Zombies a minor league basketball team participating in the East Coast Basketball League.

For many years before the Giants, Springfield Massachusetts was a member of the Eastern League, between 1893 and 1943.

Springfield Massachusetts has an official roller derby team: Pair O' Dice City Roller Derby.

In 2010, Springfield Massachusetts was cited as the fourth "Greenest City" in the United States—the largest city cited in the Top 10.

In 2003, the City of Springfield Massachusetts was on the brink of financial default, and thus taken over by a Commonwealth-appointed Finance Control Board until 2009.

The construction of MGM Springfield Massachusetts, which opened in 2018, fueled a number of projects in the years leading up to and after its opening, with an estimated $3 billion of new development and infrastructure spending materializing.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield Massachusetts operated five Catholic elementary schools in the city, all of which were consolidated into a single entity, St Michael's Academy, in the autumn of 2009.

Non-sectarian elementary schools within the City of Springfield Massachusetts include the Pioneer Valley Montessori School in Springfield Massachusetts's Sixteen Acres neighborhood and Orchard Children's Corner in suburban Indian Orchard, a Pre-Kindergarten, among others.

Holyoke Community College, 8 miles north of Springfield Massachusetts, offers more traditional community college programming in Greater Springfield Massachusetts, as well as instruction in the culinary arts.

Springfield Massachusetts has a long history of broadcast television, including two of the oldest UHF television stations on the air today.

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Springfield Massachusetts was home to the first commercially licensed radio station in the United States, and the oldest radio station of any kind in New England: WBZ, which broadcast live from Springfield Massachusetts's luxurious Hotel Kimball at 140 Chestnut Street before moving to Boston in 1931.

Springfield Massachusetts is called the Crossroads of New England because it is the major shipping nexus from New York City, Boston, Montreal and the Great Lakes.

New Haven–Springfield Massachusetts Line was upgraded in conjunction with the launch of the Hartford Line service.

Springfield Massachusetts is primarily served by Bradley International Airport, in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, 12 miles south of downtown.